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AtGender 2024 conference committee seeks volunteers for the AtGender Conference 2024: Gender Studies and the Precarious Labour of Making a Difference.
The conference will be held from September 27-29, 2024, starting with registration at 12:00 PM on September 27 at Colour Kitchen and continuing at the Science Park Ruppert Building on September 28-29, all in Utrecht, Netherlands. More information can be found here: https://www.atgenderconference.org/

Volunteer Responsibilities:

· Welcome and assist participants, handle registrations, and provide directions.

· Offer essential assistance with presentation technology, including file transfers and ensuring equipment functionality.

· Guide attendees during events and breaks.

What We Offer:

No financial compensation, but you'll receive AtGender membership and a fee waiver for the conference. This includes:

· Attend panels, keynotes, workshops, and walking tours when not on duty enjoy complimentary tea, coffee, and lunch

· Connect with scholars in gender studies and expand your network

· Gain hands-on experience in organizing a major conference

If you’re available and excited to contribute, please email us no later than September 14 at [email protected] with your availability for a 4-hour shift on one or more days. We look forward to your participation and making the AtGender Conference a remarkable event together!

It is the time of the year when we are looking for new board members to be elected during our upcoming conference. Have a look at our call, share, and consider applying!

Call for Candidacy: New ATGENDER Board Members

We are looking for 3 enthusiastic new board members to join the ATGENDER Board from September 2024. Board members serve for a three-year term (which can be extended for one additional term if re-elected). Each member of the Board serves in several working groups that are responsible for particular tasks, such as finance, the ‘Teaching with Gender’ book series, communication, conferences, webinars etc. All candidates should be able to devote time to regular organisational matters that further the ATGENDER mission and should be able to attend board meetings (approximately every 4-6 weeks).
As a Board Member, you will have significant freedom to shape the focus and scope of ATGENDER’s activities. We are especially keen to continue previous efforts to de-centre Western European perspectives/locales in ATGENDER activities. Recently, this has included an emphasis on decolonial scholarship and scholarship from the global South(s) (see recent events on decolonising feminist publishing here and speakers/panels at our most recent conference in Istanbul, Turkey). We are therefore looking for enthusiastic and creative candidates that can work collegially with other Board members to actively contribute to, and build upon, ATGENDER’s efforts to broaden the scope of our scholarly activities and membership.
We therefore encourage applications from scholars working on areas and/or from backgrounds which are currently under-represented on the Board (for instance, this might include, but is not limited to: scholars affected by ableism; scholars affected by racism; q***r, trans and non-binary scholars; older generations; precarious scholars, scholars currently unemployed or not employed in academia, and those with unsettled or refugee migrant status; and/or those working from/on Eastern Europe, Romani scholars and experts, scholars conducting critical research on Islamophobia and racism towards migrants in Europe and other regions, interrogating Far Right anti-gender and racist movements, the persecution of LGBTQI+ people in many countries, critical approaches to anti-trans / trans-exclusionary feminism as intertwined with Far Right / fascist politics, anti-racism, critical race theory and more).
If you are an ATGENDER member (whether as part of an institution or as an individual), are willing to actively contribute to fulfilling ATGENDER’s mission and shaping the organisation’s future by working collectively and collegially, please send a short motivation letter (2500 characters max.) and a short CV to [email protected]. The deadline to submit candidacy materials is 25 August 2023. All candidates must be current members of ATGENDER.
You can find more details about the role of board members and the nomination procedure both in our statutes and in the bylaws of ATGENDER. If you have any questions about what is expected from Members of the Board and/or need further clarifications, for instance on how to combine the position of Board Member with a precarious working situation, please don’t hesitate to contact the ATGENDER office ([email protected]).
Elections of new board members will take place during the Spring Conference at Utrecht University (27-29 September), at the ATGENDER General Assembly.

On the behalf of ATGENDER
The Election Committee

We finally managed to reschedule our online event with Dr Tannistha Samanta titled: Publishing and Researching from the Global South: The perils and the promise
Date: Friday 28th June
Time: 3:00pm IST / 11.30am CET / 10.30am Ireland and UK
Platform: Zoom (Meeting ID: 863 9115 4537).

PLEASE REGISTER HERE:
https://newcastleuniversity.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZIufuipqz8vGdPZKPRfUVwjLVPAAYGoOrUa

After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.

check further details: https://atgender.eu/ecr-event-publishing-and-researching-from-the-global-south-the-perils-and-the-promise/

A quick reminder about our event happening tomorrow!
Register and join us!

We are hiring: RUTA is looking for an Association Coordinator to help build our Ukraine-based transnational association. Office space in Kyiv or Lviv, with remote work possibilities. Apply by May 20, 2024. More details: https://ruta-association.org/news/vacancy-ruta-association-coordinator/

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ATGENDER is delighted to welcome Prof Srila Roy (Wits University, South Africa) as part of our online series examining the Politics of Publishing. Prof Roy will be giving a talk on Decolonising Feminist Publishing. All welcome

Date: Tuesday 14th May

Time: 2pm SAST (1pm UK / 2pm CET)

This talk will be held on Zoom. Please register here https://newcastleuniversity.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZ0vde6rqDIpGtAPOxJl7yu_ud3p3ruyN5PZ

After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.

Decolonising Feminist Publishing

This talk will present a chapter from a book-in-progress, tentatively called Dissonant Intimacies: doing transnational feminism in the global South. While the bulk of the book concerns higher education in India and South Africa, this chapter turns to feminist decolonising imperatives operating out of the global North. I reflect on how the doing of transnational feminism at this scale might forge something beyond a reiteration of Western epistemic hierarchies and Northern institutional agendas around the production and circulation of feminist knowledge (or not). I focus on attempts - including my own - to decolonise feminist publishing, from making academic publishing less exclusionary and extractive to an overhaul of commercial publishing entirely. These have been met with unexpected challenges and outcomes, whether to do with academic precarity in the North or the desires for Southern scholars to be visible to publics there. In this talk, I think together with feminist colleagues in our joint efforts to materialise different institutional and epistemic infrastructures for feminist knowledge production and circulation.

Srila Roy is Professor of Sociology at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg. Her long-standing research and teaching expertise is in the area of transnational feminist studies. Her latest books are the co-edited, Intimacy and Injury: in the wake of in India and South Africa (Manchester University Press, 2022) and the sole-authored, Changing the Subject: Feminist and Q***r Politics in Neoliberal India (Duke University Press, 2022). Changing the Subject was the winner of the Distinguished book award of the Sexualities section of the American Sociological Association and the best book award of the Feminist Theory and Gender Studies section of the International Studies Association.

Due to an unforeseen emergency we are forced to reschedule our online event: 'Publishing and Researching from the Global South: The perils and the promise' with Dr Tannistha Samanta
We really do apologize for the inconvenience! Thank you for registering and stay tuned for updates on the new date for the event.

Remember to register to our online event tomorrow: 'Publishing and Researching from the Global South: The perils and the promise' with Dr Tannistha Samanta
16 April 2024, 11:30am CET
TO REGISTER: https://shorturl.at/tFQR3
more details: https://atgender.eu/ecr-event-publishing-and-researching.../

Join us at our online event - 'Publishing and Researching from the Global South: The perils and the promise' with Dr Tannistha Samanta
16 April 2024, 11:30am CET
details: https://atgender.eu/ecr-event-publishing-and-researching-from-the-global-south-the-perils-and-the-promise/

The zoom link is on the posters